100 Ways To Get More From Your Digital Camera Course

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Digital Photography is quickly becoming the new and most creative way to capture images without the worry & cost of film! Professional Photographer and author of "The Digital Photography Bible," Ken Milburn will teach you the most common digital camera components & the fundamentals of using your digital camera to get the best possible images. This tutorial also covers proper composition, focus, depth of field, lighting, and more. Ken will also introduce you to two of the most popular image editing programs, Photoshop 7 & Photoshop Elements. This VTC tutorial will have you shooting & editing like a pro in no time! Just click on one of the movie topics below to get started today.

Welcome to this VTC Course on Lightroom 4. During this course we'll be looking indetail at the seven Modules in Lightroom. The Library, Develop, Map, Book,Slideshow, Print and Web Modules. We'll start out by exploring what Lightroomis and how it differs from and works with Photoshop. We'll look at theLightroom Interface and discover it's Seven Modules as well as it's Panels andthe Filmstrip. Catalogs are a central feature in Lightroom so we'll look at howto Create a Catalog and how to import images into that Catalog. We'll spendsome time in the Library Module looking at different views including the Loupeand Grid Views and views such as Compare and Survey. To help you understand howLightroom works, we'll look at how it's Folder Structure compares to those ofthe underlying operating system. We'll look at ways to sort the best of yourimages using Pick and Reject Flags, Color Labels and Star Ratings. We'llexplore Lightroom's own Collections, including all photos and previous importas well as creating our own Collections. To help you categorize and protectyour images, we'll see how to add Keyword and Copyright Metadata to photos.When you need to find images in Lightroom, you'll use it's Filter Tools, so we'llsee how to find images by the Flags and Ratings we've added to them as well assearching their Properties and Camera Metadata. So that you can share yourimages with others, we'll look at a range of options for exporting your bestimages from Lightroom. To help you work between Lightroom and Photoshop we'lllook at how Light and Photoshop work together and how you can take images fromLightroom to Photoshop and back again. Many of Lightroom's behaviors arecontrolled are Settings in the Program Preferences, so we'll spend some timeexploring these and configuring them to suit our needs. Once your images are inLightroom, you'll want to develop them particularly if you're working with rawimages, so we'll look at the tools in the Develop Module for fixing images.We'll look at tools that Apply Fixes to the entire image as well as tools thatapply fixes to only a portion of the image. Lightroom Presets allow you toApply Fixes to your images with a single click; we'll see how to use built-inand downloaded Presets to develop images and how to create our own. Lightroomcan apply more than simple fixes so we'll look at some Creative Fixes such asworking on a portrait, adding a light source to an image and fixing animaleyes. There are Two New Modules in Lightroom, the Map and Book Modules. We'llsee how the Map Module let's us plot images on a map using GPS data and how toadd GPS data to images too. Many photographers create photo books as part oftheir workflow and we'll look at the new Book Module to see how to lay outproof and upload a photo book for commercial printing. The Slideshow Modulehelps you create Slideshows so we'll look at how to do this and how to playthem locally as well as saving them as video files. When it comes to PrintingPhotos, Lightroom has plenty to offer and you can print anything from one imageto multiple images as you'll see when we explore the Print Module. If you planto share your images on the web, we'll look at the tools in the Web Module forassembling a Web Slideshow and uploading it to your website. And finally we'lllook at the New Tools in Lightroom for working with video, including makingsimple edits to them and exporting them. Lightroom 4 is a complex program, allits features were designed specifically for the needs of photographers and thesheer scope of what it does from importing images through processing them tooutputting them means there's a lot to learn. However Lightroom also offers youa huge return on the time you invest in learning to use it. In this course,I'll give you a detailed look at the tools in Lightroom that will help youevery day in your photo processing workflow. Regardless of whether you're aprofessional photographer or an enthusiastic amateur, I know that Lightroomwill make you more productive and it will reduce some of the routine processinginvolved in managing and developing a large collection of images.